Voices of Opposition

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Announcements: Updated 10/5/8

• Schedule: Fall '08
  1. October 6: "Do Borders Make Peace? Palestine, Israel, and the Struggle for a just peace" -- Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada and author of a new book called "One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Palestinian-Israeli Impasse," will present up-to-date information on the conflict in the Middle East. He will discuss the need for a one-state solution.
• Schedule: Spring '08
  1. May 5: "Israel and Palestine: Roots of Conflict, Prospects for Peace" Professor Norman Finkelstein will analyze the reality of the situation in the Middle East. Recently denied tenure in a controversial move by DePaul University, Professor Finkelstein has published several books and articles in journals such as the London Review of Books, the New Left Review and the Christian Science Monitor. There will be a book-signing after this important event.
  2. Apr 28: "Spin Doctors in American Politics" This is an eye-opening documentary about the manipulation of voters by money, media, and campaign consultants. It will raise questions about all mainstream candidates.
  3. Apr 21: "Iran: Can There be a new 'Gramd Bargain?'" Dr. Richard Eaton,Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona will address the possibility of war with Iran.
  4. Apr 14: "Of Human Bondage: Global Perspectives on the Debt, Liquidity and Credit Crisis" -- Dr. Leila Hudson, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies and Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, and History at the University of Arizona.
  5. Apr 7: Blackwater Invades Illinois -- Blackwater Worldwide, formerly Blackwater USA, is a self-described private military company which trains more than 40,000 people a year, from U.S. or foreign military and police services, as well as other U.S. government agencies. They have opened training facilities across the US. Technologies used and techniques trained are not limited by U.S. domestic law.
  6. Mar 31: "Haiti: The Hijacking of a People's Movement" -- Julian Kunnie, Director of Africana Studies at the University of Arizona, will present a film and discussion on Haiti five years after the coup which ousted Aristide.
  7. Mar 24: Asalto Al Sueno/Assaulted Dream -- This amazing documentary, shot on the Guatemala-Mexican border, gives a first-hand picture of the desperate of poverty and migration. This is the most visible and disturbing face of globalization. This film has been featured in locations all across Latin America in order to dramatize the situation and spur discussions of solutions.
  8. Mar 10: Loose Change: Final Cut -- This is the new and extensively revised version of the extraordinary film on 9/11, "Loose Change, 2nd ed." Point by point, using all the latest evidence and analysis, this documentary goes through all the events of 9/11. To quote the producers: " Loose Change Final Cut is our best effort to tell the story of what happened surrounding 9/11/2001 and expose the events in need of investigation."
  9. Mar 3: Dacajeweiah Speaks on 9/11 -- Dacajeweiah, translated into English as Splitting the Sky, has a long history of fighting for indigenous people's rights, dating back to the 1971 Attica prison uprising. He returns to Tucson for another exciting presentation on 9/11, convinced now that 9/11 was a "false flag operation."
  10. Feb 25: Septempber 11th Revisited, Version 2 extended -- Tucson filmmaker, Dustin Mugford, has revised and expanded this powerful documentary to include more eyewitness accounts and additional archived news footage that was shot on September 11, 2001, but never replayed on television. This film provides stunning evidence that explosives were used in the complete demolition of the WTC Twin Towers and WTC Building 7.
  11. Thursday, Feb 21, at St. Mark's Church (3809 E. 3rd St. at 7pm:"9/11 Evidence and Faith -- David Ray Griffin, professor emeritus at Claremont College, philosopher and author of over 30 books, will speak as one of the nation's most respected critics of the official 9/11 story. He argues that the greatest obstacle to accepting truth is "nationalistic faith", a belief that our leaders are good and would not betray us!
  12. Feb. 18 Update On Venezuela After The Referendum: "Two Steps Forward and One Step Back", and film, Five Factories -- provide up-to-date insights into the latest events in Venezuela. Has Chavez found a way to build a better society? How do you develop a socialist consciousness in a capitalist world? This will be a thoughtful, stimulating presentation.

About Voices of Opposition

Who is Voices of Opposition? Well, officially we are Voices of Opposition to War, Racism and Oppression. We are centered here in Tucson, Arizona, and our core group of eight or so people organise a political film and lecture series here at the University of Arizona. Hopefully at some point we will branch out to reach Pima Community College and the rest of the community.

Every Monday during the fall and spring semesters, in an effort to present the public with an alternative to the standard media outlets, we present free socially conscious political films and lectures that address the issues that all of us face from day to day, but which our 'leaders' can't seem to solve, our media just doesn't seem to cover, and no one seems to analyze as a symptom of a larger problem.